I wrote:
[Perl6::Slurp] will most likely appear in the next 36 hours.
It's now on the CPAN.
Damian
Damian Conway wrote:
Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
In the section "He doth fill fields..." we see an example of Fill
Justification where two spaces fit between every word. This doesn't
give us an idea of how spaces are distributed if the number of
spaces needed does not divide evenly into the number of
Should Perl6::Slurp be added to Bundle::Perl6? Or is that not being kept
up-to-date?
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
Should Perl6::Slurp be added to Bundle::Perl6?
Probably. Along with:
Perl6::Binding
Perl6::Classes
Perl6::Currying
Perl6::Export
Perl6::Form
Perl6::Interpolators
Perl6::Parameters
Perl6::Placeholders
Perl6::Tokener
> Or is that not being kep
Richard Nuttall suggested:
An alternative is to have "fill rightmost gaps" and "fill leftmost gaps" on
alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so they
don't all look heavier on the left.
That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
For example:
Now is the w
Damian Conway wrote:
Richard Nuttall suggested:
An alternative is to have "fill rightmost gaps" and "fill leftmost
gaps" on
alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so
they don't all look heavier on the left.
That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
The Ve
[I'm resending this because I think it was lost since I wasn't
subscribed from this address. Apologies if it appears twice.]
We essentially have
Single-line Block
=== =
{<<<} {[[[}
{>>>} {]]]}
{|||} {III}
{'''} {
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
: That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
I think anyone who does full justification without proportional
spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader.
Ragged right is much easier on the eyes--s
>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>: That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
>I think anyone who does full justification without proportional
>spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader.
>Ragged right is much easier on the ey
Larry observed:
I think anyone who does full justification without proportional
spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader.
Well, it really depends on how neatly
one is able to write. It really isn't
that hard to create a fully justified
text that doesn't inflict pain on
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:42:28PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
: Well, it really depends on how neatly
: one is able to write. It really isn't
: that hard to create a fully justified
: text that doesn't inflict pain on the
: reader. English is especially good in
: that regard, offering such a pleth
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229
Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with
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Running up to release time
As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the
week was mostly spent getting things ready for release. A c
Rick Delaney wrote:
> Why not something like
>
> Single-line Block
> === =
> [<<<] {<<<}
> [>>>] {>>>}
> [|||] {|||}
> ['''] {'''}
>
> which distinguishes the 2 main field types and gives us only the 4
> justifiers
Larry noted:
> There's a lot to be said for being able to write
things like:
[ & + ]
Now I'm supposing that & binds tighter than | as usual, so the
brackets wouldn't always be necessary:
& +
|
& +
FWIW, I'm strongly in favour of adding & to rules.
Indeed, if Larry were to gi
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:58:38PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
: FWIW, I'm strongly in favour of adding & to rules.
:
: Indeed, if Larry were to give the word, I'd be delighted to add support for
: it to the Perl6::Rules module.
Execute! (I hope that's the right word...)
Larry
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